- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Terry Graham, March 22, 1999
- Creator:
- Graham, Terry, 1919?-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Covington, Amanda
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1999-03-22
- Subject:
- African American businesspeople--North Carolina--Mooresville
School integration--North Carolina--Mooresville
Mooresville (N.C.)--Race relations
Mooresville (N.C.)--Economic conditions - People:
- Graham, Terry, 1919?-
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Iredell County, 35.80708, -80.87344
United States, North Carolina, Iredell County, Mooresville, 35.58486, -80.81007 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Mooresville, North Carolina, resident and taxi service operator Terry Graham describes his changing town in this interview. He worries that the town has "just outgrown itself" and is at risk of being swallowed up by nearby Charlotte; already, businesspeople from the racing industry are infiltrating the town, says Graham, and he worries about the effects of the closing of Burlington Mill on African Americans. The future for Mooresville as Graham sees it does not look bright for its lower-income residents. Perhaps the most significant change Graham describes is desegregation. He remembers a relatively uneventful process: though the white and black community disagreed about whether it was the white school or the black school that should undergo the conversion to an integrated facility, that and other questions were handled peacefully, even when Martin Luther King's assassination roiled the community. This interview offers a glimpse of a town in flux, sprawling toward an uncertain future.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0434/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on December 16, 2008).
Interview participants: Terry Graham, interviewee; Amanda Covington, interviewer.
Duration: 00:37:51.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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